How I almost made a brick

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My 2 cents..

I was using ICSSGS from 1st RC. But it becomes very laggy after 3-4 weeks, so factory reset every month was necessary. I decided to change ROM.
I installed DOC's v12 ( I assume is is the same Doc that was cooking ROMs for my Omnia, and I was werry pleased with those ROMs). Did wipe, cleaned cache, cleaned Dalvik, formatted /system, flashed ROM, wipe again and it was working. But after two days it was still very laggy (talking about waiting for response for 3-5 seconds) so I wanted something faster. I had choose this Openkang milestone 6.

And then the fun begins.

Downloaded, copied to sd, booted to CWM, all wipes, flashed ROM, flashed gapps and went to bootloop. 3 button combo worked only for download mode, not for entering CWM. There was no way I could access CWM. I even could not enter Android boot (don't know exactly how it is called, but it saved my TF101 more than once.)

So after 1/2 hour of unsuccessful trying to get to CWM, phone just shows logo for icyglitch kernel and went to boot again, I have seen that only option to do anything was Odin. I downloaded Odin, downloaded some 2.3.6 ROM and downloaded CWM for that rom.
First I had to find driver for phone. I remembered phone on ICS wants nexus drivers so I installed those, booted phone to download mode and flashed 2.3.6 rom with Odin.
Phone booted, boot animation was on screen, but it did not boot to working Android. I didn't care too much, just booted to download mode again, flashed CWM and now I had at least access to my sd card. Did all wipes again, flashed DOC again and went to bootloop (Icyglitch kernel logo) again.
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So I repeated Odin procedure, and when I had working CWM I flashed good old ICSSGS 4.02. This one worked.

I had spent 4 hours to solve this problem mostly because I was not full prepared to flash.
-I had no working USB driver on PC
-I did not had Odin
-I do not have ADB installed. Even if I had it, I don't know much how to use it.
-I did not have any working 2.3.6 ROM WITH bootloader
-Nandroid backup... hmmmm... what is that? Bah, don't need it...

Luckily I flashed my phone so many times I already roughly know what to do, but I still have experienced my share of "OMGOMGOMGOMG".

My advice to new and seasoned flashers:

Don't be cocky. After million of successful flashes once will go wrong. If nothing else Murphy will kick in. And when something goes wrong, be sure that all that you need to rescue phone is on your HDD and you know WHERE it is and how to use it. And read guides. And when you finish reading read them again, then go to sleep and flash next day.

Now I'm even more satisfied with myself because I do not flash other people's phones. If it happens that I create a 400€ brick, it will be at least mine.

If this helps anyone to restore phone, click Thanks button

Thankyou for being man enough to share this, I hope all noobs read this and start getting the message!

Originally Posted by slaphead20

Thankyou for being man enough to share this, I hope all noobs read this and start getting the message!

Lol you were faster .

I had the same problem today trying to flash aokp m6...

Got bootloop and then Odin was hanging at various points when I tried going back to stock GB.

I thought I was goosed but the good old SGS came through in the end!

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Flashing can be frightful. I'm sure every seasoned flasher here on XDA has had their fair share of OMG moments. I know I sure have.

Future advice: after you lost recovery, you didn't need to go back to GB. Stratosk (of Semaphore Kernel) has a .tar version of his ICS kernel that can be flashed with Odin, which will then restore your CWM. This would have been a faster, simpler fix for you. Keep that in mind for next time.

I would suggest you try SlimICS the next time you get sickend of (laggy) ROM. I for one, absolutely love SlimICS, and as all, it does have some drawbacks (no lag, though) when you're pimping it out too much.

Originally Posted by upichie

Flashing can be frightful. I'm sure every seasoned flasher here on XDA has had their fair share of OMG moments. I know I sure have.

Future advice: after you lost recovery, you didn't need to go back to GB. Sratosk (of Semaphore Kernel) has a .tar version of his ICS kernel that can be flashed with Odin, which will then restore your CWM. This would have been a faster, simpler fix for you. Keep that in mind for next time.

Too bad I didn't know that. Somehow I was convinced that no ICS rom or kernel is flashable via Odin. But Later when everything worked and I finally had time to breathe I thought that I didn't need to go to GB. I think maybe only to flash any GB CWM with Odin would be enough. All I needed was working CWM, not entire rom.

Anyway, I'll try Slim now, let's hope I won't need to rescue phone again.

I bricked my phone twice yesterday, trying to install a CM9. It was my first attempt to modify a phone. Nice start.

Originally Posted by bpp9

I bricked my phone twice yesterday, trying to install a CM9. It was my first attempt to modify a phone. Nice start.

Happens to everyone! 2years in and I accidentally wiped my sd card yesterday! Was a long night! It's a fast learning curve but fun when you get the hang of it!

Always brick my phone in the past, nearly one time a day
Well some tips for flashing:
- On stock ROMs, try flashing all partition firmware (i.e. 3 files in Odin) with re-partition checked before finding for help.
- Always backup you data with apps like Titanium backup, I don't usually use nandroid because it is not so flexible.
- Get GB bootloader before going to CM based ROMs, and go back to froyo bootloader if you want to have froyo back (search EzBoot for this).
- CM based ROMs and stock ROMs use a different filesystem, so flash all partition firmware before going back from CM to stock.
- Same reason, you will mostly get bootloops when going to CM ROMs. In this case, just hold the 3-button combo to enter recovery and flash it again.
- Same reason again, don't use CWM2 recovery to flash CM.
In case that anyone don't know, CM means CyanogenMod.

Hope this helps!

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